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Edwin SaanSidekick

Mobile APP show numeric keyboard when numeric lookupOpen

When using a numeric field as lookup in a table with a numeric ID, the mobile APP default comes up with the alphanumeric keyboard and users always need to switch to show the numeric keys on top of the Alphanumeric keyboard. It would be great if the APP 'knows' that a numeric input is required and default shows the numeric keyboard.

Bas van den HooffThinkwiser

Set focus on the next empty, and mandatory form elementOpen

Currently I use ENTER to skip all the elements in a form, I rather use TAB + ENTER (for instance) to set the focus on the next empty and mandatory element. Hopefully the image below gives a better understanding of the idea. Especially when there are multiple form elements and tab's, users could save a lot of time entering data.

Mark JongelingSoftware Architect

Opening a Tile item directly as Pop-up screenCompleted

I would like to be able to open a tile item as a pop-up screen with a single click. For now, I have to click it, drag it out of the tab bar to a desirable place and then press full-screen. For context: The tile menu has a tile item which opens the Search Engine. With this engine, the user is able to search up products and more. Then by using drag-and-drop, the user can drag the product to his shopping cart to add it. In this example it is always desirable that the search engine has been opened as a pop-up screen so the user can drag product from one place to the other. As a developer, I would like to be able to configure this in the Software Factory. As an user, I would like to be able to open any tile item as pop-up screen by right-clicking the tile item and then selecting 'Open as pop-up'. Edit: It's possible to open a tile item as pop-up screen by holding the ALT key while clicking the item. However, this is not common knowledge among users. Edit 2: Maybe Floating screen is a better name to use

Mark van BenthemSidekick

Have a lookup for display and a lookup for input.Closed

There are situations in which we have a regular table containing for example all services and a linking table, linking services to for example objects. When I want to add a service to a record in a third table that already contains an object then I would like to filter on these objects and only be able to select services that are linked to that object. Now this is very easy by making this linking table the lookup table for the service. Sometimes we also use views as a lookup, where the view enables us to filter on multiple complex conditions for services to select from. Now when a service suddenly doesn't comply to these conditions and would drop out of the view then the display of the service would be empty. Afterall the service isn't present in the lookup table anymore. However I would very much like this service to still be displayed correctly. I would like to name one lookup (the view) to select a service from and one lookup (the regular table containing all services) to use as the source for the display-value. In this case the service can disappear from the view, but still be visible in my application, possibly with a tooltip or color signalling that there is something that needs attention.

Make templates with assigned parameters safer to useOpen

When a template has an assigned templates paramater your template code will look something like this: select 1 from [parameter] In a small piece of code the parameter is obvious. In a large code template this parameter is less obvious. Now it's very easy to break this logic and setting a hardcoded value to this parameter. If you always work from template this should not happen however, we live in a world of copy/paste so accidents do happen (especially in a large chunk of code) To make template parameters safer to edit i suggest the following two changes: during creation add a validation. This validation will give a warning if a template has no parameter set but the parameter is assigned in the assigned templates. In this case someone probably broke the template parameter logic. In functionality - templates give some kind of indicator that a parameter is being used for the template. Now you would only know by looking at the assigning screen and selecting the specific program object in assigned templates.

Extension to debug-screen: process flow deeplinking to code overview in SFClosed

The debug screen for the GUI has seen some improvements over the last few additions. Can I ask for more? Can the objects in the debug screen be turned into hyperlinks that deep link to a relevant section of the SF? I realize that for that to work as an hyperlink, the SF has to run via the web or perhaps the universal GUI. Would a helper program (such as AutoHotkey) make it possible with the current SF in the windows GUI?

Mark JongelingSoftware Architect

Ability to open specific subjects via right click menu in the GUICompleted

In the project I'm working on we have a search engine to search for products and other resources. By using drag-and-drop we can drag it from the search engine to the desired place which can be at many places inside our application. It would be convenient if I can open the search engine (as pop-up screen) with the right click menu and assign a short-key to it. That way I can open the desired screen easily. Something like:

Jop ter HorstThinkwiser

User interface control for similar recordsOpen

Just as on the community, I'd like a UI control that searches for similar records. For example: if I enter an issue title and there are records with similar data in that specific field, let me see those records to prevent me from entering a duplicate record. On the community this works perfectly: All credits to @Bas van den Hooff for this idea!

htimmermansCaptain

Add specification notes to specification textCompleted

For those who use Design specifications in the SF (2018.3), for each specification line one or more notes can be added. I'd like to see them notes merged in the "Specification text" form like shown below. Print the notes in a different color and/or font to see the difference between a specification line and notes made on that particular line. Perhaps also the posibility to show or not show the notes (checkbox). Finally, why not using the full width of the form?

Mark JongelingSoftware Architect

Ability to set the time it takes the Combined filter to start filteringDeclined

EDIT: I now see that there's an application specific extended property, only available for applications running via IAM. But I would like this to be screen specific. At one screen I want to be able to enable it and at other ones not. And also working for application run via SF. Currently the Combined filter starts filtering after one second and in a is this changeable. In some cases for let's say typing in productcodes or other types of codes that are somewhat difficult, an user would like to have a while before the Combined filter does it's job. Probably even want to prevent the Combined filter from automatically searching unless the 'Enter'-key has been pressed. I would like to be able to set the time it takes for the Combined filter to start filtering the rows in the list and also have the option to disable the automatic filtering per screen.

Jop ter HorstThinkwiser

Separate color for detail tilesOpen

Often I have white tiles in my application, because my backplate has a lot of color. But I want to use detail tiles in my (mostly) white screens, but detail tiles have the same color as regular tiles. I'd like to be able to set a divergent color for detail tiles.

Mark JongelingSoftware Architect

Ability to use .gif background in the Application menuClosed

Currently we can only use pictures to use as background. But I think it would greatly profit the Wow-factor of applications if we would be able to use GIF backgrounds for applications.I'm imagining along the lines of a mostly static picture but with moving elements like a flag or even trucks or something like that. The possibilities are endless. Edit, it is indeed possible in the Universal GUI like Jasper stated. Upload the animated background in Themes:

Set organization size in SFClosed

There are quite a few sections that we don't need in SF. We are a smaller company and for the last couple years I have been the only SF user. The SF over time received new capabilities such as releasing control procedures for review. This means however I'd be reviewing my own code so I basically end up 'dumb' clicking through long lists just to get through validation. I used to do this in batches by changing certain task code in SF but I stopped doing that because every suite upgrade comes with changes in the SF data model. Now with the new 2019.1 version it doesn't even seem possible anymore to ingnore validation messages when pushing a project to IAM. This means I have to go through these lists every single time we release a new version of our application. This makes a lot of sense in larger organizations but for us it's a bit of a burden rather than a helpful tool. Therefore I'd like to see some kind of setting in SF that can take things such as code review out of the equation, perhaps through some simple setting that says small/medium/large organization but with the ability to customize which parts of SF are actually active. Now we always have a fully active SF which is basically overkill at least for us.

Mark JongelingSoftware Architect

'Collapse all menu groups' buttonOpen

As I'm working with the Software Factory and end product, I noticed that I'm unable to collapse all menu group items in one go. This leaves me clicking all close menu group buttons to get a clean look. Since I rarely use the filter because I like to use my mouse to open menu items, I would like a button somewhere in the menu to close all opened menu groups.

Jop ter HorstThinkwiser

Automatically create shortcutsOpen

To open an application, we have to create an .ini file and drag it onto the GUI. For all my projects, I have a default folder of shortcuts, in which I change the folder name and project name for the current project. Also, new Thinkwise Developers don't understand this (see my latest conversation with @Freddy) I'd like it when shortcuts would be created automatically. When I create a new project in the Software Factory, create two shortcuts: one to open the SF, and one to open the application against the SF. If there is any information required to create those that can't be found in the model, it could prompt for this information. Also, when creating a new application in the IAM, create the shortcuts too.

Edit row without need for context menuOpen

It's possible to edit rows in a list by right clicking the list and choosing edit in grid. This works fine but I would like to see a more user-friendly option. I propose the following: When hovering over a row a pencil appears at the end of the row. By clicking the pencil the user opens up the row for editing. The pencil is replaced with save and cancel buttons. After pressing the save button the changes are written to the row and the user is then able to do the same again with other rows. As long as the row is editable the other rows are locked for this user only to prevent mistakenly editing data in the wrong row. This not only seems more intuitive than the current edit in grid option but it also allows for editing the grid without a form and without the drawbacks that come with making the grid editable by default.

htimmermansCaptain

Add language(s) to GUIClosed

At this moment (SF version 2018.3) quite a few languages are available to have the GUI presented in. By adding one or more BASE projects and including those languages in your project the GUI can be used by loads of international users (getting data in your tables presented in the users language is up to the developer). Adding one of the GUI_TRANSLATIONS* base projects makes them available in the GUI. At this moment we have a request to add Polish as a GUI language. An option is to create my own base project and copy all the GUI related translation objects from one language to, let's say, PL-pl for Polish. But as this is part of the Thinkwise set of projects (and I've seen this happen in the past, when I added Spanish before Thinkwise caught up with me), I'd rather have Thinkwise add another GUI_TRANSLATIONS project to the SF (as a Hotfix, preferably). Perhaps others have different languages on a wishlist.

Deactivate Execute merge session when there are unresolved merge conflictsDeclined

On a merge session if there are merge conflicts you can still press the button execute merge session. However this will result in an error message since there are still unresolved conflicts. Since it makes no sense to execute the session in this state deactivate the Execute merge session button when there are unresolved merge conflicts.

K.BakkenesCaptain

Reset user specific sort order to default sort of subject when opening a screenClosed

We have a table with more than 6 million 'trade item' records (and a top(1000) set via 'Subjects'). A user is allowed to change the sort order of the screen. Some sort orders will result in a freeze of the screen. The user can't reset the sort order to the default (from the TSF) because the screen won't open anymore. Even when closing and opening it again. We could disable sorting completely but we don't want that. The only way to resolve this is deleting the user preference from IAM. But this has to be done by the support department. It would be a nice addition if we can configure the sort order (made by a user) to reset when opening/closing a screen.

Jop ter HorstThinkwiser

Color setting for svg iconsCompleted

Because of Universal we use SVG icons for the entire application. Universal changes the color of the icon for the dark theme. But it only changes the color if the SVG itself doesn't have a color, which makes sense. If I don't use a color, the Windows and Web GUI's interpret it as black. But in the Windows and Web GUI I never want to use a black icon. I'd like to be able to set a color for the SVG icon in the theme, but perhaps also per icon. In that way, I can easily change colors without replacing all my SVG icons. I understand you can have an SVG icon with multiple colors, I don't have a solution in mind for those yet. Maybe you can think with me. But now I have to create variants of subjects merely for the icons, and that doesn't feel right.

Mark JongelingSoftware Architect

Expand/Collapse all items in Treeview based on User Preference.Open

When using Process analysis in the Software Factory, the project I work on has a long list of requirements divided in multiple categories. (Note: we have over 3500 items in the treeview) Currently I open the Process analysis screen and every time, I will Collapse all items in the Treeview to then select the item I need to open. I noticed that there's no User Preference for this which means I will always need to Collapse all items by right-click and select the 'Collapse all' item (or use the shortkey Ctrl+Leftarrow) What I would like is this to be determined by User Preference if present. If I always open that particular screen and Collapse all items, it should do it for me already upon opening.

K.BakkenesCaptain

A document preview doesn’t scale based on the page size of the documentOpen

When a ‘Preview’ component shows an A4 sized PDF file the whole page is visible but when I select another record with an A3 sized PDF the zoom factor will be the same. Which results in a display of the A3 sized file without showing the whole page. A4 A3 It would be nice if the zoom factor is determined automatically based on the page size of a file.

Robbert van TongerenThinkwise blogger

Copy IAM groups from another IAM (2019.1)Open

The current situation is as follow: We have a development IAM, test IAM, acceptance IAM and production IAM. For now we can focus on dev and test IAM. The roles are now in the SF, so after synchronizing to any IAM the roles are copied automatically, which is very nice. When creating a new branch or application we synchronize this to the develop IAM, and from there we create groups and attach them to the roles and application. But now we want to push the application to the test IAM, we synchronize the SF to the IAM, all the roles are copied, but not the groups. It would be very nice to have a task which can copy the groups to the test IAM FROM the develop IAM and attach the roles already present in the test IAM. This way the develop IAM is leading towards develop, acceptance and production.

gariensThinkwiser

Add support for using environment variables in process flow connectors.Completed

In an application, we want the end user to be able to make a selection of documents and download these files accordingly. We use a process flow to make this happen. When a user selects a couple of documents they should be copied to the download or document directory of the end user that executes the process flow. However the current process flow connectors do not support environment variables, like %userprofile%\Documents or %temp%. This would give us the opportunity to move files from a connected file share to the document folder of the end user. This would be a nice extension, since it creates a user friendly experience for the end user.

Mark van den BergModerator

SF change the order of menu items under ProcessesCompleted

This is just a tiny wish but in my opinion it makes sense to change the order of the menu items under Processes. It should be in ascending order of importance: Processes Process flows Tasks Reports Custom screens In my opinion the process flows are what binds everything together, tasks and reports are mere tools that can be used to achieve specific tasks and custom screens are quite rare anyways.

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